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    NO EDUCATION COMMITTEE DECISION ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

    Arutz Sheva
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/227878
    Dec 26 2011
    Israel

    Monday's hearing of the Knesset Education Committee on recognizing
    the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s ended
    without a decision. Member of Knesset Aryeh Eldad (National Union),
    who initiated the hearing, said, "The committee missed an opportunity,
    today, to make an historical-moral statement, including a call to
    the full Knesset to recognize the genocide of the Armenian and an
    application to the education minister to enter the subject into the
    Israeli school curricula. Instead, the chairman of the committee gave
    in to a dictate from the Prime Minister's Office, again because of
    "the special sensitivity of Israel-Turkey relations."

    Eldad continued, "They always told us we can't broach the subject
    because our relations with Turkey are too good. Now they tell us our
    relations are too bad. A moral statement by the Jewish people must
    not fall victim to the blackmail of threats from Turkey or Azerbaijan.

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